The metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America
By: Sandra Baringer.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Suspicion in literature.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167) and index.
Table of contents: title: Crucifying the white man : Douglass Durham and the master narrative of the seventies savage; title: Lynching the white woman : William Pierce's "Day of the rope"; title: Women's work? : child sexual abuse prosecution in the 1980s; title: Motherhood and treason : Pynchon's Vineland and the new left; title: Motherhood and terror : Silko's Almanac of the dead; title: Beyond the Foucauldian complex : inscriptions and reinscriptions of the power paradigm by American prison writers.